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AMAZING
HUMAN FACTS

Among
the top ten causes of death in the US are toxic reactions to correctly
prescribed drugs, which make more than two million Americans seriously ill every
year, and kill 106,000 more.Incorrectly
prescribed drugs account for another 90,000 deaths each year!

A
person can live without food for about 40 days, but only about 7 days without
water, 6-8 minutes without air, and literally an instant without Life Force.

Except
for your brain cells, 50,000,000 of the cells in your body will have died and
been replaced with others, all while you have been reading this sentence.

Your
heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 40,000,000 times a year.
In
one hour the heart works hard enough to produce enough energy to raise almost
one ton of weight one yard from the ground.

The
liver is often called the body's chemical factory. Scientists have counted over
500 liver functions.

The
central nervous system is connected to every part of the body by 43 pairs of
nerves. Twelve pairs go to and from the brain, with 31 pairs going from the
spinal cord. There are nearly 45 miles of nerves running through our bodies.

Messages
travel along the nerves as electrical impulses. They travel at speeds up to 248
mile per hour.

The
central nervous system is the master system of all functions within your body
and has a reciprocal Neurophysiologic relationship with the Acupressure Meridian
and Chakra (Emotional Energy Centers) Systems of energetic function within your
being. Subluxations in your spine,
cranium and extremities, interfere with the flow of nerve impulse energy
information and acupressure meridian energy within your body.

The
aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.
Capillaries, on the other hand, are so small that it takes ten of them to equal
the thickness of a human hair.

Your
body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. This 5.6 liters of blood
circulates through the body three times every minute. In one day, the blood
travels a total of 19,000 km (12,000 miles) - that's four times the distance
across the US from coast to coast.

Our eyes can distinguish up to one million color surfaces and take in
more information than the largest telescope known to man.

Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of
thousands of different sounds.

Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.

We give birth to 100 billion red blood cells every day and about
two
million red blood cells every second.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

During
the first month of life, the number of connections or synapses, dramatically
increases from 50 trillion to 1 quadrillion. If an infant's body grew at a
comparable rate, his weight would increase from 8.5 pounds at birth to 170
pounds at one month old.

The
average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

Our
bodies contain enough water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

We
have enough carbon to manufacture 900 pencils.

Fingernails
are one of the human body's strongest components. They contain keratin, which is
also found in rhino horns, which refuses to erode after death.

Babies
are not fully naked in the womb. In fact, their entire bodies are usually
covered in a thin layer of dark hair by the end of the fifth month of pregnancy,
which disappear when the baby is born.

People
blink once every four seconds. That's because the eyelashes act as windscreen
wipers, keeping dust and grime from getting into the eye itself.

Humans
are one of the only mammals who are unable to 'turn' their ears in order to hear
approaching predators.

An
embryo is genderless for the first 6-8 weeks of pregnancy.Only after that the body decides whether the baby will be a boy or girl
through dominant hormones that emerge.

Every
tongue has its own individual print, which is unique to each person.

The
big toe is actually one of the most important elements within the body, as it
balances the skeleton and enables the owner to move forward when walking without
it, we would simply fall over.

If
the population of China walked by you in single file the line would never end
because of the rate of reproduction.

f a
person has two-thirds of their liver removed from trauma or surgery, it will
grow back to its original size in four weeks time.

On
average, you breathe 23,000 times a day. You take about 600 million breaths
during your lifetime.

The
odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one.

It is
normal to lose 100 hairs per day from the scalp.

We
take about 600 million breaths during our lifetime.

There
is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of US and Canada
combined.

There
are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been
tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

The
average human body contains enough: Sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog,
Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars
of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads, and enough water to fill a ten
gallon tank.

If
you could save all the times your eyes blink in one lifetime and use them all at
once you would see blackness for 1.2 years!